Joe Arpaio, a Monster Who Terrorized Communities of Color, Is Bummed Everyone Is Calling Him a Racist Monster

The recently pardoned former Arizona sheriff doesn’t sound very happy with his media coverage.

Ah, Joe Arpaio. Here we are again. It was only hours ago that I detailed all of the myriad ways that the recently pardoned Arizona sheriff was a monster. Chief among the litany of horrors that he and his department brought down upon the people of Maricopa County is the fact that he continually and insistently racially profiled people. In fact, that is what he was being pardoned for. You see, Joe Arpaio and his department racially profiled people he thought looked like they might be in the country illegally. And no, it wasn't people he thought had a friendly Canadian demeanor that he went after. It was people who had brown skin that would be detained and asked to prove that they lived in the country legally.

Unsurprisingly, a federal judge ordered him to stop this program that unfairly targeted Latinos and he refused, which got him convicted of contempt of court. This is a quite literal case of someone being convicted for being a racist. But here's the thing, guys. The recently pardoned Joe Arpaio isn't happy that people are calling him a racist! No, he's not happy at all.

This is a man who put cameras in the women's prison toilets. He sent an investigator to Hawaii to try to prove the racist birther theory that he and Trump espoused against Barack Obama, and yes, he was found to be in contempt of court, because he loved racist policing policies so much that even when a federal judge told him to stop, he was like, "Nah, let's keep arresting the brown dudes."

So, yeah. Joe Arpaio isn't going to jail. But if anyone is going to be labeled a racist monster, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who'd fit the label better.